Kahn, WolfSigned 2003 Wolf Kahn Down in the Valley Serigraph 2003 - "Down in the Valley" by Wolf Kahn, Signed Serigraph printed in 2003 from an edition size of 108. The overall is size of the Serigraph is 35 x 40 inches. The condition of this piece has been graded as A: Mint. Here is some supplemental information about the Serigraph: This serigraph is a prime example of Kahn's use of light and color that characterizes much of his work. Signed and numbered in the lower right hand corner by Kahn. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Rowling, J. K.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) U.S.A.: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003 A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by J K Rowling on the title page, with complete row of numbers to 1 on the copyright page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Murphy, Audie (with Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and 5 others)TO HELL AND BACK: Combat Classics of World War II Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2003. Collector's Editions. Full Leather. New/No Jackets as Issued. A handsome full leather set of six volumes in the original shrinkwrap, personally selected by the late historian Stephen E. Ambrose, in fine unread condition including: "To Hell and Back" by Audie Murphy with Foreward by Tom Brokaw. "Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich" By David Kenyon Webster with Introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose. "Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy" by Donald R. Burgett with Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose and Introduction by Martin Blumenson. "The War Journal of Major Damon 'Rocky' Gause" by Major Damon "Rocky" Gause with Foreward by Stephen E. Ambrose and Introduction by Damon L. Gause. "With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa" By E.B. Sledge. "Baa Baa Black Sheep" By "Pappy Boyington (Col. Gregory Boyington, USMS, Ret.). All with gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmarks. An impressive set intended for World War II buffs and collectors.

Thorpe, Peter (for Tony Hillerman)The Sinister Pig: Original Painting for the Cover plus the signed first edition [2 Items] HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. Fine Book/Fine Framed Painting. A beautiful painting, fully framed, by Peter Thorpe that was selected by HarperCollins for the cover of Tony Hillerman's best-selling book, "The Sinister Pig." We are also including the first edition book of "The Sinister Pig, signed by Tony Hillerman. The painting is professionally framed and matted in a brown wood frame that measures 13 7/8" x 23 " high. The painting is done in acrylic on hand made paper and the visible size of the painting is 8 3/4" x 7" high. The framing includes a copy of the first edition cover. The painting has not been examined outside of the frame. The first edition book is in fine condition, with a complete dustjacket, signed by Tony Hillerman on a clean white page at the front of the book. Published in 2003, "The Sinister Pig" was the sixteenth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman. It was a New York Times best-seller soon after it was published, in June 2003. Thorpe's painting was also used on the paperback first edition and subsequent editions including audio book and large print edition.

(SZABO, JOSEPH) Szabo, Joseph Introduction by Cameron CroweJOSEPH SZABO: TEENAGE (SZABO, JOSEPH). Szabo, Joseph. Introduction by Cameron Crowe. JOSEPH SZABO: TEENAGE. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2003. First Edition. Square 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (168pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Joseph Szabo's seldom-seen first book "Almost Grown" has become a photographic cult classic. An inspiration for the look of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", its matter-of-fact snaps of seventies Long Island teenagers captured at school and the beach are keenly telling of that time in our lives when social acceptance and what clothes we wore meant nearly everything. In "Teenage", his first anthology of work since 1978, here again are the students of Malverne High School (where Szabo taught photography from 1972 to 1999) along with a charming introduction by director Cameron Crowe, whose teens of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" occupied a fictional, yet parallel universe. The photographer's intimacy with these kids is uncanny - he still seems like a fly on the wall even when his subjects are staring straight into the lens. A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9727788-0-2 Inventory Number: 025131

Howard, David SanctuaryChinese Armorial Porcelain: Volume II Heirloom & Howard Limited, 2003 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; leather bound in red morocco with slip case and dust jacket (limited edition of 200 copies,); 23.5 x 30.3 cm; 4.316 Kg; 904 pages with 1,880 colour illustrations, 1,500 armorial services described; STILL WRAPED IN PLASTIC.; Foreword by Peter Ll. Gwynn-Jones, CVO, Garter Principal King of Arms. Introduction and four illustrated chapters on aspects of the China Trade: 1.Reflections, Replacements, Reproductions and Revival, 2.Of Counters, Carriages and Bookplates, 3.Armorial Porcelain for Scotland and the role of the Swedish East India Company, 4.Chinese Armorial Porcelain: The Market during the last Century and in the Future and The Laws of Blazon, a chapter on understanding heraldry. Together with a comprehensive analysis and classification of styles and dates of armorial porcelain; 16 appendices including details of directors, captains, ship-owners and merchants of the Hon. East India Company; Governors of Madras, Bombay and Bengal; Lords Mayor of London and city livery companies; analysis of owners of services; bookplate originals for services; and a complete list of mottoes recorded in both volumes. General Index and 50-page comprehensive Index of Services..

S Lillian KremerHolocaust Literature Routledge, 2003. Hardcover. New. This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical esSKU: MM-60114330; EAN: 9780415929851

Knight, Robert SalisburyThe American Landscape [SIGNED] Robert Knight, Carmel 2003 - 72/250 Signed Robert Knight and numbered on title page. Oblong Quarto (10 1/2 x 20 1/4") 33 (1) plates. Original bolted gray leather with center frame revealing the title page photograph; housed in matching leather clamshell box with mounted color photograph and silver lettering on covers. 33 leaves with 41 stunning color photographs taken with a large format Fuji GX 617 panoramic view camera, respectively an 8 x 10 Deardorff wooden field camera. The photographs are mounted on heavy black paper stock with captions and quotes of the likes of Ansel Adams, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aristotle, Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man, Edward Steichen and others on facing pages. Laid in a business card of the John Knight Gallery. Clamshell box and album with very light wear in near fine condition. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

King James Bible 1611 Replica The Bible Museum 2003 - This is a full scale replica of the first impression of the Original 1611 King James Bible. It is number 551 of an exclusive, limited edition of only 1611 copies. This exceptionally fine item was printed by offset lithography. The custom watermark laid paper was specially made for this commemorative issue by Fox River Paper Mill to closely match the original hand made paper. The massive genuine leather binding is a faithful replica of an original binding. The coat of arms on the cover is that of King James I. This replica edition is one of the finest ever produced. It was crafted in 2003 and all 1611 copies completely sold out by 2008. Note: The King James Bible is the most printed book in the history of the world. Here is what it looked like in its original form. Any so-called &#147;1611&#148; King James Version you by today at the local Christian Bookstore is absolutely NOT the 1611. It is the 1769 revision. This item weighs over 25 pounds; therefore, extra postage charges will apply. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Sansom , C J Dissolution (London) Macmillan (2003)., 2003. First British printing. 8vo. 390 pp. Color map endpapers. Original black cloth binding. The author's scarce first book. SIGNED by Sansom on the title page. This is a tight, fine book in a bright, fine DJ with the original printed wrap-around band present. Scarce thus.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

Twain, MarkExcerpts from The Diaries of Adam & Eve [ARTIST BOOK - Charles Hobson] Pacific Editions, [San Francisco] 2003 - Limited edition of 38 copies, this being no. 35. Charles Hobson, book artist extraordinaire, has brought together a perfectly lovely tale of love by Mark Twain, personified with images of a running man and woman based on the human motion studies by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1901. Twain wrote two separate stories, "Extracts for Adam's Diary" and later "Eve's Diary", with much of the sentiment of the two for each other derived from the deep love he and his wife, Livy, shared throughout their lives. The French Door design of the binding of this book enables the reader to compare Adam's and Eve's "diaries" while the two figures race towards each other. ***DESCRIPTION: Made as a limited edition of 38 copies; 13 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches, 46 pages, signed by Charles Hobson on the colophon page, the pages contained within a traditional book-style binding of paper decorated with red apples and green concentric circles on a black background, black cloth spine with gilt lettering, publisher's matching slipcase covered in grey cloth with a front pastedown of a small piece of decorate paper matching the boards. The diaries have been published here in a French door style of binding with a concertina fold which allow each diary to be read as single, integral work while at the same time allowing passages from each to be easily compared; the concertina also provides a place to print the verses from Genesis that were Twain's source and, on the inside fold, the handwriting of Twain and his wife, Livy. Adam and Eve draw closer to one another and ultimately embrace. This movement toward an embrace has been given a visual counterpoint by use of the running figures based on the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge published in 1901. Each page of the diaries contains a folded and collaged image and a scrap of the handwriting of Mark Twain and Livy from letters they exchanged during a two year period when doctors forbade Twain to see Livy in her sickroom. The final drawings have been made as monotypes with pastel and have been printed as digital pigment prints. The prints have been cut out so that they can be opened across one another to overlap and to form a visual embrace. A separate print made as a composite of the last images in the book has been folded into an accordion and included in a pocket at the back of the book, this print is also signed by Charles Hobson. The digital pigment prints have been printed on an Epson 2200 pigment based digital printer which produces images which are water-fast and resist fading. The concertina and French door structure with cut-out pages and collaged folded sheets has been designed by Charles Hobson and assembled with the assistance of Alice Shaw. John DeMerritt made the board covers and slipcase (N.B., description from Charles Hobson's web site). ***CONDITION: Fine in a like slipcase. ***POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the Abe standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ***Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

BOBERG, Oliver, BERG, Stephan, ENGLER, Martin, VAN SINDEREN, Wim, DE GUZMAN, René, MAYER, MarcOliver Boberg (Hatje Cantz Verlag), Limited Edition (with Print) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany 2003 - First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 25 copies with an original Type-C print of the book's cover image, signed, titled "Memorial," dated and numbered (this being #19/25) in black ink verso by Boberg (image size 6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches, paper size 7-7/8 x 11 inches). The book is signed in black ink on the half-title page by Boberg. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and videos by Oliver Boberg. Edited by Stephan Berg and Martin Engler. Foreword (in German and English) by Stephan Berg, Wim van Sinderen and René de Guzman. Essay (in German and English) by Martin Engler, and an interview with Oliver Boberg by Marc Mayer. Includes a bibliography, an exhibition history and a checklist of the exhibition. Designed by Gabriele Sabolewski. 142 pp., with 47 four-color plates, and some black-and-white reference illustrations, beautifully printed by Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei, Ostfildern-Ruit, with color separations by Repromayer, Reutlingen. 9-7/8 x 11-10/16 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2003 exhibition Oliver Boberg at Kunstverein Hannover (also traveled to other locations). Out of print. Very scarce. Near Fine (light bumps to corners; print has a 1/4" crease in the upper right white margin, not affecting the image area). From the publisher: "One of the most interesting artistic personalities of his generation, Oliver Boberg has, since the late 80s, been making small models of urban settings, which he then photographs in such a way that their model quality almost totally disappears. The reality presented in his photographs of underpasses and flat-roofed buildings is one of a non-location, a place which is so familiar that it could be anywhere and nowhere. Boberg's videos from 2002 and 2003 show nocturnal landscape views which seem to be based on film scenarios, but these works, too, reproduce scale models. The 16mm films transferred to DVD show eerie situations which are devoid of people: a foreboding cliff or a country road seen at twilight during a dreary rainstorm. The model of this non-location here becomes a detail of a story which is rich in allusions, charged with a cinematic suspense and fearful expectation. This publication brings together for the first time the photographs, video stills, and drawings by this young German artist." Signed by Author. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Mark SamuelsThe White Hands and othe Weird Tales (Signed By the Author and Thomas Ligotti) Tartarus Press, Leyburn UK 2003 - First UK Edition. Hardcover. Liimited to 350 copies. Fine book with purple boards and endpapers with a silk ribbon. Nearly fine Dust Jacket with a slight tap to the lower spine and front bottom flap end. Signed, dated in the year of publication and inscribed by the author to Thomas Ligotti on the half title page. Additionally inscribed by Ligotti to Carl Ford on the title page. Links three of the key figures in modern horror literature. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

GRAHAM, Paul, SARAMAGO, JoséPaul Graham: American Night [SIGNED] The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2003 - First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the half-title page by Graham. Hardcover. White cloth-covered boards with debossed title on front cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Paul Graham. Text by José Saramago. Includes a list of plates. Edited by Michael Mack. Designed by Paul Graham and Michael Mack. 144 pp., with 63 four-color plates (printed one per sheet), beautifully printed by Steidl, Göttingen, Germany. 11-5/8 x 15-1/8 inches. Near Fine (some light stray surface marks and light handling marks, else Fine). From the publisher: "Paul Graham's photographs touch upon the social fracture of America--the great divide between the included and excluded, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots. Taking on a simple topic, of late dealt with only through cliché photojournalism, American Night embraces neglected territory in a series of shocking images that sit on the fence between art and document. Graham's images blind and overwhelm the viewer with a feeling akin to stepping out of a sheltered place and into the sunlight. Drained of color, shadow and form, they resonate with the lives of those they portray.and then the sequence snaps, either to a vibrant full-color image of a freshly minted dream house, complete with a blue sky and green grass of unattainable perfection, or to an intensely dark street portrait.before returning to the endless blinding whiteness of everyday life. Beyond their paucity or wealth of color these images contrast one another in their content: These perfect homes are unobtainable to those walking in the burnt landscape; they are a mirage, a dream or promise that can almost never be reached. Here is the chasm between promise and actuality, hope and reality, dream and truth. Shot between 1998 and 2002 in locations across America, including Los Angeles, Memphis, Detroit, New York City and Atlanta." Signed by Author. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Marquez, Gabriel GarciaLiving to Tell the Tale New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 484 pp. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Translated by Edith Grossman. Signed by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the title page. Minor bumping to spine extremities and corners. Minor crease to top edge of back dj. Otherwise, a superb signed copy by one of the greatest Latin American novelists.

Bellow, SaulBellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March. New York: The Library of America, 2003. First edition of the Library of America release of the author's first three novels. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Signed by both Saul Bellow and James Wood on the title page. James Wood served as editor. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare signed as the author was aged at this point and did not attend booksignings for the release of this edition. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).

George R R Martin, Robert SilverbergLegends II (Limited Edition): New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy U.S.A.: Del Rey, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1ST. An Outstanding Copy - Signed Limited Edition. Book Is In Fine Condition, Still In The Original Plastic. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. No Dust Jacket As Issued..

Photographer) Duane Michals, Constantine CavafyTribute to Cavafy [Together with] Tribute to Cavafy (Five Photogravures) Limited Editions Club, New York 2003 - 2 volumes. Folio. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, One of 300 copies, SIGNED by Michals on the colophon with 5 photogravures bound in; sold with 'Tribute to Cavafy (Five Photogravures)', a portfolio from the LEC issued the same year containing the five photogravures each signed and numbered (from an edition of 50, from a total edition of 65). All contents fine, with slight waviness to the mounts. Both volumes fine, in original publisher's clamshell boxes. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

[Price, Robin] Amy Bloom.Language of Her Body. Middletown, Connecticut:: Robin Price, Printer & Publisher,, 2003.. Edition of 60. 8 x 18" closed, extends to 36"; 17 pages. Images printed onto cream Tosa Hanga using archival pigmented inks. Text handset in Arrighi and printed letterpress. Photography by Derek Dudek whose wife is the model. Sumi-e by Keiji Shinohara. Text fragments by Amy Bloom were selected passages from her novel Love Invents Us. Handbound, housed in a bone-clasp enclosure of red Japanese silk cloth over boards by Claudia Cohen and Mark Tomlinson. A visual lyric by Derek Dudek and Keiji Shinohara, with fragments of text by Amy Bloom. Derek Dudek's large-scale photographs are printed directly onto the soft, cream Tosa Hanga. The text is printed letterpress by Robin Price. Keiji Shinohara completes the sheets, painting directly onto them with sumi inks. This lush, meditative artist book explores the photographic nude female figure, re-interpreted through a landscape of sumi-e (Japanese brush painting). Typographically embedded into the images is a sensual vocabulary of the necessary, the beautiful, and the devastating. Robin Price: " Conceived as a visual lyric composed independently by Derek Dudek and Keiji Shinohara-two artists of very different media-Language of Her Body explores the photographic nude female figure, re-interpreted through a landscape of sumi-e (Japanese brush painting). A desire to suggest alternate readings of the visual led to a third element that expands the meaning of the book: fragments of text, by author Amy Bloom, are typographically embedded into the images. Even though the page width is approximately the length of your arm, a feeling of intimacy is retained by its diminutive height.

Shelmerdine, Susan C. (Translator)Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite Shanty Bay Press (2003), (Ontario, Canada) - Limited edition of 100 copies (plus 10 NFS), this no. 33, SIGNED by both Janis Butler and Walter Bachinski of Shanty Bay Press, this being the third publication of the Press. The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous Ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods, and are only termed "Homeric" in the sense that they come from the earliest times of Greek book-literature (N.B., info from Wikipedia). This hymn is to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and the pochoir illustrations glow with a youth and beauty appropriate to Aphrodite herself. ***DESCRIPTION: Bound in ivory Torinoko Gampi paper over a yellow cloth shelfback, yellow cloth fore-edges, gold endpapers, duotone woodcut on the title page, coloured initial capital letter, three full-page, full-color pochoir woodcuts, two duotone woodcuts in addition to the one on the title page and a smaller one on the colophon page; type Bembo, on Somerset Satin paper, designed by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the woodcuts and pochoir illustrations by Walter Bachinski; folio size (approximately 13" tall), unpaginated with 15 leaves total (including illustrations, excluding blanks); limited edition of 100 copies for sale, this no. 33, signed by Janis Butler and Walter Bachinsk on the colophon page. The slipcase is covered in a yellow cloth matching the volume's spine and fore-edge. ***CONDITION: Fine, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, perfectly straight corners with no rubbing, the interior is clean and bright, and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; the publisher's slipcase is also fine. ***POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the Abe standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ***Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Murphy, Audie (with Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and 5 others)TO HELL AND BACK: Combat Classics of World War II Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2003. Collector's Editions. Full Leather. New/No Jackets as Issued. A handsome full leather set of six volumes in the original shrinkwrap, personally selected by the late historian Stephen E. Ambrose, in fine unread condition including: "To Hell and Back" by Audie Murphy with Foreward by Tom Brokaw. "Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich" By David Kenyon Webster with Introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose. "Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy" by Donald R. Burgett with Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose and Introduction by Martin Blumenson. "The War Journal of Major Damon 'Rocky' Gause" by Major Damon "Rocky" Gause with Foreward by Stephen E. Ambrose and Introduction by Damon L. Gause. "With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa" By E.B. Sledge. "Baa Baa Black Sheep" By "Pappy Boyington (Col. Gregory Boyington, USMS, Ret.). All with gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmarks. An impressive set intended for World War II buffs and collectors.